About Anastasia
Anastasia Ingram-Flores offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, mood shifts, or big life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in California and brings nine years of experience to sessions. Anastasia aims to make the first step feel manageable.
She focuses on short, clear conversations that help clients identify what matters most. She listens for values and goals, then helps shape realistic next steps.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on mood and motivation, including depression, bipolar concerns, panic, and addictive patterns. She also supports people dealing with grief, career stress, relationship communication problems, and shifts tied to culture or discrimination. In sessions she uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead and build trust.
She combines that with DBT skills for managing intense emotions and mindfulness practices to reduce rumination and improve focus. Anastasia adapts tools from solution-focused and motivational styles to help people set short-term goals and keep momentum. She explains ideas plainly and checks in about what is or isn’t working.
Her approach is steady, respectful, and practical, aimed at helping people gain useful skills for everyday life.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s pace. In practice this means the therapist encourages people to lead the conversation, reflects what they say, and helps them name priorities and values. This approach helps when someone needs a space to sort feelings and decide what matters next.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. Online work can include practicing grounding, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills between sessions to handle panic, mood swings, or relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as needed. That way therapy stays relevant to daily challenges and personal priorities.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent, brief touchpoints for skill practice, reflection, or planning between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English